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Agendas and Minutes


May 3, 2012

Members attending: Janet Foss, Debbie Schraeder, Rosemary Cervantes, Susan Evans, Jen Madison, Penny Businga, Dave Perkins, Becky Brandl, Mike Pruter, Amy Schultz, Jill Osler and Denise O'Brien

What are your needs?

What are the needs of our SDA group and our schools?
  • Classroom management
  • Handling difficult behaviors
  • Anita Archer Explicit Instruction Model (5-8 SDA members will be trained by Anita this summer TOT)
  • Active student engagement
  • Building relationships
  • Working with students of poverty (TOT in Orlando this summer Ruby Payne),
  • Critical Thinking
  • How we do PD (Coaching models)
    • Side by side coaching- teachers responsibility, coaches responsibility,
  • Developing professional development plans
  • Learner and content connections
  • School culture-classroom culture
  • Circle Project- implementation
  • Project based learning
  • Awareness of academic rigor

What ideas do you have?

  • Generate scenarios, follow-up
  • Slide-share follow-up
  • Highly Engaged School Marzano (book did not blow us away, but when presented components at academy made lots of connections)
  • Solution Tree Nicole Vagle- Lighthouse Learning Community author of Motivating Learners
  • John Hollingsworth- EDI Learning Objectives
  • NOC operates by sending folks for TOT and then train rest of NOC members
  • Marzano instructional rounds
  • Feldman Learning Walks
  • Development of tool kit of ways to encourage implementation and refinement of implementation
  • Jim Knight- Instructional coaching (ESU 13 has been using him for the past 3 years)
  • ESU TOT Trainers (ex. Anita Archer Explicit Instruction)
  • Furthering implementation-share ideas on how SDA members are making this happen
    • Possible EdCamp topics on instructional implementation; share best practice ideas
  • Could we arrange to see small sessions with the experts in September to help us decide who we bring in April?
  • Know there are 2 people that we want book them both; then September have mini sessions with experts to decide which way to go.
  • Marcia Tate
  • Harvey Silver
  • Budget could be spent on getting materials for every service unit.
  • Would PDO pay sub release for teachers to come to present to us?

What are your next steps?


  • Try and research methods for helping teachers implement - Jim Knight
  • Come up with title and then description of what we want.
  • IDEA FOR THEME: From here to there: getting the techniques into the classroom.
  • Professional Development effectiveness - how do we evaluate ours?
  • We know the strategies and can share them with teachers
    • How do we help get them implemented in the classroom environment?
      • How can we evaluate our own practices?

Other Information:
Additional Bucket Idea- Learning Environment